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I guess not many people read the manga, since I suppose it is easier to watch the anime on TV. Also most people watch the english version of it, and I don't think it has shown those episodes yet. Or maybe I just missed them or something, I don't really watch it. -_-; Plus the people who post "I want Kikyo to die" on here probably are in the middle of the series of the manga or anime or something like that...

I'm beginning to think that people don't realize the anime and manga are the exact same story (except for altered bits in the anime and filler episodes) The manga is the actual, original story. The anime began AFTER the manga was started, therefore ANYTHING that happens in the manga is more canon than what the anime is. I think a lot of people fail to see that the manga is the true story, it's still being continued and the anime ended due to the fact of that they were getting too ahead of the manga, creating too many filler episodes that the true Inuyasha fans were getting bored with. The fact remains is that no matter what, the manga is the true story and Kikyou, Kaugra and Kanna are dead.

Naraku gave Kagura back her heart and once he did he stuck his tentacles right through her. She basically bled to death I believe, but she didn't die alone. Sesshoumaru was there with her when she died. She faded and become the wind. She finally achieved the freedom she had always longed for.

Kanna was forced to make a mirror monster come out of her mirror and attack Inuyasha-tachi. With every blow that Inuyasha sent on the mirror monster, Kanna was the one who recieved the wounds for it and she eventually just cracked and shattered if I remember correctly.

This is a really strange discussion :S I don't understand why people are getting so wound up over something like this.

Kikyou is physically dead from almost the beginning, but to point out she is is a bit redundant since she is still an active character. Made of clay and living off souls, yes. But she is alive in terms of the plot.

Personally I'm quite happy she was "offed" permanently in the manga. However, in anime terms, she will never be. And no matter how much people argue about it, unless they reopen the series and make more episodes, the animated Kikyou still "lives on". Which means that fans of the anime can still say they'd like to see her die

Not much point in fighting about it, when you consider that...

I'm beginning to think that people don't realize the anime and manga are the exact same story (except for altered bits in the anime and filler episodes)

I apologise to the original poster for hoiking that quote out - I'm not aiming anything directly at you, you just worded it nicely for me to use as an example here.

This alteration thing is the common story with manga and anime generally though. They're not exactly the same - actually, when a manga is made into an anime, things are almost always changed to fit episode time, screen effects, etc. And you get plot omissions, or filler episodes, or wild deviations in plot. (Amiboshi in Fushigi Yuugi springs blatantly to mind).

What isn't always clear to people is that by making these deviations, the anime people have generated a second "canon". It might not be "official canon" (as dictated by the original writer). But it is still a canon. Anime canon, if you will. And for every oficionado who only cares about the original story and who will not acknowledge any other line of thought, there will be one fan who prefers the animated version and has no interest in the original at all.

Such is life. Live and let live, or so the saying goes. It'd be pretty boring if everyone just had the same opinions anyway...

BTW - isn't this topic title kind of a spoiler in itself for the manga? :S

Ah-but here's the thing...The anime Never Completed itself, and in fact *told* it's viewers that the story would continue on in the manga on the very last episode and that if anyone wanted to know what happened from there to pick up the manga and read it.

So-in fact and in essence Kikyou did pass on in the anime in a way, same as the manga. True they did not animate her final moments-but she is gone for both. ^^

I love Inuyasha character Kagome to death, but there are times I just want to beat the girl over the head with a 9 iron.

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I wouldn't mind whether Kikyou was dead or not. I can't decide whether I hate or I don't. Maybe it's because she doesn't have a big personality. Anyway, I already knew she died. Now, I haven't seen the end of the series. -never did like it THAT much- But, if she did live, I guess that would be ok.

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Dear person with nonenglish characters in their name:
I thought she was dissolved in the Miasma of Naraku?

Dear Doomdealer,

She was, but she survived that and came back with a huge scar across her chest and shouki filling the rip there. That time didn't destroy her for good.

However, Naraku did manage to destroy her for real at last-but she didn't desolve...She was more like a clockwork doll whose gears had been messed with so badly that she was beyond repair. She couldn't move at all in her last few chapters of "life." So-basically you can say that she broke down and dissapeared then.

I love Inuyasha character Kagome to death, but there are times I just want to beat the girl over the head with a 9 iron.

私は犬夜叉の妻である

We all must fight; to protect, to survive, to keep alive what we believe in.

I am sort of glad she is gone, though I am not all the way through the manga or series, I was hoping it was coming. She finally passed away completely and now Inuyasha and Kagome can live in peace without her tormenting them. She was a wee bit irratating trying to butt in between Inuyasha and Kagome. But now that she is gone, well, they can both get on with life!

well kagome has inuyasha now....I cant sleep better at night...I always hated kikyou...I don't think they got to where she dies in the anime....They are supposedly comming out with a 5th movie ad new episodes in 2009 or 2010....

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well kagome has inuyasha now....I cant sleep better at night...I always hated kikyou...I don't think they got to where she dies in the anime....They are supposedly comming out with a 5th movie ad new episodes in 2009 or 2010....

1. The ending was a cliffhanger. No "Inuyasha and Kagome" relationship happened. (anime)

1. The ending was a cliffhanger. No "Inuyasha and Kagome" relationship happened. (anime)

2. No they are not.

it could be possible in a way, hellsing did something similar with it's tv series. basically it got ahead of the manga and branching off into it's own story. now there's hellsing ultimate which follows the manga pretty closely since it recently ended. i can also think of other series that took a similar approach, first to mind Love hina with it's movie series. so if the studio that owns the rights to inuyasha wanted to they might do something like this or try to blend in the manga elements. so you can't really say that it won't just because that's what you think, right now they might not be doing anything because it might be waiting for the manga to end. but that doesn't mean they won't.

by the by, to keep with what this thread is about, yes it was a bitter sweet end to kikyo, but it fit the character. think of the ending to cowboy bebop, a lot of people still debate about that ending, but a lot of people believed it fit the tone of the story and the character type, which is the tragic hero/heroine type.